Bajo de la Carpa

43 occ. 32 taxa (2 genera) 1 countries

Description

The Bajo de la Carpa Formation is a geologic formation of the Neuquén Basin that crops out in northern Patagonia, in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, Argentina. It is the oldest of two formations belonging to the Río Colorado Subgroup within the Neuquén Group. Formerly, that subgroup was treated as a formation, and the Bajo de la Carpa Formation was known as the Bajo de la Carpa Member.

Genera

2 genera

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J. D. Porfiri excavating the holotype of Diuqin lechiguanae from the Bajo de la Carpa Formation. © J. D. Porfiri, M. A. Baiano, D. D. dos Santos, F. A. Gianechini, M. Pittman & M. C. Lamanna · CC BY 4.0 · Wikipedia

Temporal range

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Paleogene

Neogene

252 201 145 66 0 Ma

Geological group / Member

Neuquén 43

Top countries

🇦🇷 Argentina 43

Depositional environments

Terrestrial indet. 17

Fluvial indet. 17

levee 5

Fluvial-deltaic indet. 2

Fluvial-lacustrine indet. 1

interdune 1

Top collectors

MAU 15

S. Roth 6

F. Romero 5

MCF 5

LACM 5

Roth 4

Schiller 4

J. D. Porfiri and team 3

J. F. Bonaparte 3

J. O. Calvo 2

O. de Ferrariis 2

Benítez 1

Collection activity by decade

1880s 6

1890s 15

1900s 1

1910s 5

1920s 13

1980s 3

1990s 9

2000s 6

2010s 30